October Cherries
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The October Cherries were a late 1960s group from Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. The group was originally known as the Surfers, but changed their name to The October Cherries in 1968. They were influenced by The Beatles
The Beatles
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, and were popular in Malaysia and the Netherlands
Netherlands
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.

Songs with strong psychedelic
Psychedelic
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 backgrounds included "Lay Down Your Love", "Dreamseller" and "Felicia".

Albums

The group released several albums:
  • Meet the October Cherries, recorded in 1969 was their first.
  • The second album was Dreamseller.

Two other non-psychedelic albums that followed were:
  • Funkgus I - Man with a Gun
  • Funkgus I I.

Solo albums

Solo albums by the group vocalists recorded at the Old Baal Studies in London
London
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, England
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were:
  • Baking Hot
  • Manhattan Skyline
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